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By Mary Beth HislopDaily Staff Writer
A sunny, warm autumn day and a pre-celebration for “Dia de los Muertos” lured dozens of families out of their homes on Saturday to enjoy traditional and contemporary Mexican music,
poetry and dance in the Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose.
The ancient Mexican day-of-the-dead festival is an annual re-membrance of friends, family and ancestors who have passed on to the spirit world in death.
“It’s very holistic,” said program volunteer Masha Rotfeld, 22. “You embrace death; it’s a part of life.”
An altar on display at the San Jose Museum of Art represented the tribute that is erected to fam-ily and loved-ones as an offering to invite their spirits inside the home. The holiday is officially celebrated Nov. 1, commonly known as All Saint’s Day, followed by All Soul’s
Day on Nov. 2.“Dia is a remembrance of
those who have died,” said Jeff Bordona, the museum’s manager of youth and family audiences. “We’re mixing the old with the new into the day of the dead,” Bordona said of the museum’s presentation.
San Jose State University 1981 alumnus Pete Silva was enjoying
the sunshine as his daughter deco-rated a sugar skull with icing and candies at an outside crafts table.
“I think it’s great to bring the heritage to San Jose,” Silva said. “My wife is Mexican and the kids don’t get too much exposure to the culture.”
Several members of the Latino
SPARTAN DAILYS E R V I N G S A N J O S E S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y S I N C E 1 9 3 4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006 — VOLUME 127, ISSUE 37 — THESPARTANDAILY.COM
Families flock to San Jose to honor deadDia de los Muertos held at art museum
Stenciling a scare
see DEAD, page 3
Marching on Raider Nation
Cure for the early bluesWeekly campus radio show brings in icons
By Tyanne RobertsDaily Staff Writer
Chef Ramon serves up a whole new meaning of morning blues Fridays between 6 and 10 a.m. on San Jose State University’s radio station 90.5 KSJS.
Ramon Johnson is the host of “Blue’s Cafe,” which first aired in 2001.
“I started the show because we are losing live music,” Johnson said. “The show gives me the opportuni-ty to share blues and play music by bands that I really care about.”
KSJS is a full-time, student-op-erated radio station and is the only full-time, student-operation on the SJSU campus, according to the KSJS Web site.
“We are student run and orga-nized, which gives us the oppor-tunity to play music that students want to hear,” Johnson said.
On Friday, Chef Ramon, which is Johnson’s emcee name, served up a blues show with a well-known blues guitarist Willy Roland, who performed live in the studio.
“Willy called me up and was in-terested in playing in the studio,” Johnson said.
Roland, who was born in New York and now lives in San Francis-co, said he began playing guitar at the age of six.
During the radio show, Roland performed a few songs live off of his upcoming album, which does not have a title yet.
“I love playing acoustic in the
State worker charity program ends today
see BLUES, page 3
By Lalee SadighiDaily staff writer
Today marks the last day of the California State Employees Chari-table Campaign for 2006, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
The California State Employees Charitable Campaign was estab-lished to provide a charitable fund raising drive in the state communi-ties through payroll-deduction do-nations from state employees, ac-cording to the organization’s Web site.
“This campaign provides us with the opportunity to give back to the community by contributing to charities and non-profits of our choice,” wrote President Donald Kassing in an e-mail sent to faculty and staff members, to encourage their donations.
“With more and more cutbacks being made to local, state and fed-
see CHARITY, page 6
Friday market brings the farm to San Pedro Square
By Michael GeslaniDaily Staff Writer
Visitors flocked San Pedro Square Friday for “Farm Fresh Fridays,” which is downtown San Jose’s Farmers’ Market.
The event is held every Friday until Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visitors can enjoy live music, shop for unique gifts, watch demos and sample some of the things the vendors have to offer.
Visitors who come to the farmers’ market don’t have to pay for parking; visitors may park at the San Pedro Street garage and get their parking tickets validated at the infor-mation table.
According to the SJDowntown.com Web site, 2,000 visitors are expected each week.
The visitors walk past the San Pedro Square sign and can see vendors selling sun-glasses, clothing and pieces of work from lo-cal artists while live music is playing in the background.
Sheri Grene, the vendor coordinator, said vendors pay to come to the farmers’ market and sell anything from nonagriculture items to imported items.
The farmers’ market also has chefs on hand who participate in showing visitors
see MARKET, page 6
SJSU marching band performs at halftime show
Tracy Kwong, a junior major-ing in human resources and a shift leader at the Student Union Jamba Juice, makes a pumpkin cos-tume for her co-worker on Monday. Tracy is dressed as Donatello from the Ninja Turtles cartoon.
PEARLY CHAN/ DAILY STAFF
PHOTOS BY FANG H. LIANG/ DAILY SENIOR STAFFThe Spartan Marching Band plays in front of a sold-out stadium during the halftime show between the Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday at the McAfee Coliseum.
ABOVE LEFT: The Spartan Marching Band gets a first view of the McAfee Coliseum from the field as the members arrive for their halftime show. ABOVE RIGHT: A Spartan Marching Band member is reflected off a trombone during practice outside of the McAfee Coliseum on Sunday.
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
By Michael GeslaniDaily Staff Writer
The San Jose State University Marching Band, the Color Guard and the Spartan Spectrum Dancers performed in front of a sold-out crowd Sunday during halftime of the Oakland Raiders game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“We’ve never done it before,” said freshman band member Ko-suke Okamura.
Okamura said this was the larg-est crowd he has played for and was his first big event other than SJSU football games.
According to www.ballpark.com, the McAfee Coliseum has a capacity of 50,000.
Color Guard member Allegra Maruoka, a senior majoring in an-thropology, said that it’s fun per-forming in big events like this, be-cause the people get into it.
“When we performed at the Nevada game, where the football team visited, there were more than 20,000 people,” Maruoka said, com-paring it with the Raiders game. “It’s always bigger, more intense and more pressure.”
Marching band director Scott Pierson said the band scored the gig because of a Spartan Spectrum choreographer who used to be a Raiderette and used to perform in Raider games in the early ’80s.
Pierson said before the halftime show that the Spartan Spectrum Dancers were surprised to have a special guest take pictures with the dance team before they walked on the field.
Snoop Dogg came to the area where the dancers were getting ready and took pictures with them, Pierson said.
“That’s certainly something
see BAND, page 6
Looking for something to do tonight? Halloween calendar, page 4
Guest column: I’ve seen a wholelotta change going down, page 2
Spartan football player receives scholarship from coach, page 5
CRUNCH TIME
It’s time to stick it to the man, cause some mischief and have fun
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It happens to all of us at some point or another: We find ourselves trying to do too much at once.
And often times, it is not our fault — some weird twist of fate that everything seems to come up at once, completely out of our control.
As college students, this can usually be predicted just looking at the green sheets for classes.
Tests all seem to land on the same week.And when we bring our minds to focus on those
all-important tests, we have term papers that force us to divert our attention and lose sleep.
And don’t even get me started about finals.Gone are those blissful days of our childhood that
were broken up by recess, where we were almost commanded to drop everything and go play.
Gone are those summers, where we didn’t have to think about getting a job, attending summer school or any other adult-related activity.
Now we are stuck in a never-ending pattern of hurry and stress.
Or what about nap time?You remember that time in preschool when you
were told to spend a certain amount of the day to just sleep?
Well perhaps some of you freshmen still practice
nap time — I know I did through my junior year.Sadly, those days are gone. And they may never
come back.I say we rebel and revert to those simpler times.I say we tell “the man” that we are no longer going
to take his “you have to be a productive member of society” any longer.
Sure, the man can flunk us.Sure, the man can refuse to give
us jobs.But you know what, why do we
have to listen to the man?The man is the one who told
us as children that we couldn’t eat candy for dinner. The man is the one who sent us to our rooms when we were bad.
The man is the one who punished us.But we are no longer children. We don’t have to
listen to the man.We can set our own rules.The man set those rules that we now are forced to
follow after he defeated his oppressor. We can do it. We are just as capable as the man.
Today is Halloween, so let’s go trick-or-treating.
Let’s join those little ones who are still ignorant to the wicked curve ball that life is about to throw them.
I say we stay up late, eat candy and otherwise cause mischief.
Let’s stay up late and sleep long tomorrow.Why not?What better things do we have to do?Midterms, what midterms?Term paper? It can wait.I just want to disappear for three months, sleep 12
hours a day and not have a care in the world.I just want to hang out with friends, laugh and
play.Maybe even travel down to Los Angeles on a
day’s notice for no other reason than to visit friends who have moved down there.
Or what about pretending that the weather is not atrocious and hit up the beach.
I could go boogie boarding with that special lady. We could just lie in the water, waiting for that perfect wave, talking and sharing stories.
Just the two of us lying there, with no one else around, no work pressure and no tests.
We could then have a contest to see how many waves in a row we could catch. Then set a record and
try to break it.What, 15 waves in a row? Let’s try for 20.Oh, what could be.Maybe one day, this idea of a utopia can be reality.Maybe one day, my rebellion will take form.My comrades will line up behind me and over-
throw the system.But wait. I can be considered “the man.”Crud.Well, perhaps this rebellion can wait until I am no
longer the editor of the Spartan Daily.Staffers, you are forbidden from reading this. So
forget everything I just wrote until the semester is over.
You got that?Good.Well, for the rest of you, ponder my proposal.
Maybe one day.Maybe.
Cheeto Barrera is the Spartan Daily executive editor. “Crunch Time” appears every Tuesday.
Sparta Guide is provided free of charge to students, faculty and staff members. The deadline for entries is noon, three working days before the desired publication date. Space restrictions may require editing of submissions. Entries are printed in the order in which they are received.
I never think of the future — it comes soon enough.— Albert Einstein
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
CHEETO BARRERA
TODAY
Concert SeriesA part of the listening hour celebration titled
“Celebrating Electric Jazz Guitar Music” from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in the Music building Concert Hall. For more information, contact Joan Stubbe at (408) 924-4649.
Counseling ServicesCounseling Services will host a men’s process
group from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in the Administration building room 201. For more information, contact Kell Fujimoto or David Emmert at (408) 924-5910.
QTIPQueers Thoughtfully Interrupting Prejudice will
hold a general meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Montalvo room of the Student Union. For more information, contact Derrick Quema at (510) 691-1989 or e-mail [email protected].
HR 101 Effective Business WritingA training session on the elements of effective
business writing from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Clark Hall
room 547. For more information, contact Lindsay Hamm at (408) 924-2141 or e-mail [email protected].
Economics Department Provocative Lecture“Cancer Risks: Government Myths and Scientific
Reality” with lecturer Bruce Ames from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library room 225. For more information, contact Jeff Hummel at (408) 924-5418 or e-mail [email protected].
School of Art and DesignThe Tuesday Night Lecture Series presents Jeff
Brown’s “Approaching Nowhere: Examining America’s Cultural Landscape” from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Art building room 133. For more information, contact Jo Farb Hernandez at (408) 924-4328.
School of Art and DesignStudent Galleries Art Reception in Galleries 2, 3,
5, 8, Herbert Sanders and Black Gallery from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Art building and Industrial Studies building. For more information, contact the gallery office at (408) 924-4330.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear editor,
I am writing in response to Humza Chowdhry’s guest column, “Hamas government is responsible for violence, but it also does good,” in the Oct. 24 edition of the Spartan Daily. Chowdhry writes that the government of Hamas serves the Palestinian people very well.
But does it? Let us look at the facts.First, Hamas has repeatedly and steadfastly
refused to accept the existence of the state of Israel, as well as any previous agreements between the Palestinians and Israel. This policy obviously rejects any peaceful solution to the Mideast conflict and assures the Palestinian people a never-ending conflict with the State of Israel, endangering more Palestinian lives.
How can this policy benefit the Palestinian people?
Second, the Hamas policy of an ongoing, cease-less conflict with Israel has alienated both the United States and the European Union. Both have
stopped contributing money to aid the Palestinian government and the Palestinian economy.
Hamas’ intransigence has driven the Palestin-ian economy into bankruptcy so that teachers and civil servants have not received salaries for months. Teachers have struck, refusing to work without a salary.
Lawlessness and theft have increased, as people are desperate to obtain basic essentials. Does this benefit the Palestinian people?
Third, Hamas has created its own militia which continues an armed conflict with the established Fatah police force, leading to ongoing daily civil conflict and the loss of more Palestinian lives. How can this policy possibly help the Palestinian people?
Surely, the Palestinian people deserve a peaceful and prosperous society. However, Hamas is not the answer to their aspirations.
Irwin Kassergraduate studentliberal arts
Having returned to the San Jose State University campus after eight years of trying to find a career, I find it much friendlier than when I went here in the mid 1990s.
When I went here, there were almost no cell phones, but everyone had a pager. The campus had no life, and students went to and from classes look-ing over their shoulders, not to sure if some insane sex offender was going to jump out of nowhere and start making ridiculous catcalls.
The most popular word was “not,” and the most unlikely way to get a date was to utter lines from
cheesy movies. As of yet, Austin Powers had not premiered. This was the “Clueless” era, especially when cell phones burst onto the scene in 1996. The movie made them popular somehow.
Computers in Clark Library, as it was called then, were old Macin-tosh Classics. These clunky com-puters were only upended by the
newer Power Mac, which the lab technicians barely knew, but seemed to think they did.
Perhaps the most annoying term to be misused in the ’90s was “You’re the pimp.” This was so stupid, as if being called a pimp made you eligible to get girls, so all the freshmen were running around calling each other a pimp every time one of them so much as said “Hi, what’s your number?” to a girl and she would ignore him.
If she so much as smirked, they would burst out with this inane term and thus never get the girl’s phone number.
Now it appears that the men are struggling to catch up with the women, and I haven’t heard too many stupid pick-up lines this semester, probably be-cause the guys who used to say stuff like that aren’t in college these days.
I recall being a naive freshman at Evergreen Val-ley College, where I didn’t know what I was even doing, let alone trying to understand relationships. I never really went around imitating cheesy pop cul-ture. Usually, I was enthralled in the world of “Star Trek” and the series spin-offs.
So, I could point out the nuances of any given “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” episode and the biographies of each major character thus far, which, unless I happened to meet someone into that, wasn’t going to get me anywhere socially.
Fortunately, the campus did have a science fiction club or two, but I was only part of one for two days.
I didn’t continue with science fiction clubs, but I found the Evergreen Flyer, the campus newspaper, to
be excellent for meeting like-minded bizarre people.When I transferred to SJSU in the fall of ’94, I
quickly discovered that the journalism department was not my cup of tea anymore, so I went into Eng-lish, and were it only for three friends I transferred from Evergreen with, didn’t really know anyone for the rest of my university life!
When I attended the university the first time, the population was 24,000, 60 percent men and 40 per-cent women. Now, there are about 30,000 students on campus and the percentages have flipped to about 60 percent women and 40 percent men.
This might have something to do with fewer catcalls, given that there are more women who would object to sexist comments.
I returned in 2000 briefly and found that some of the campus life had come back, but the Spartan football team was losing and the university had torn down the Spartan Pub, which I thought had been a popular hangout on campus.
In 2005, I returned to take up a second baccalaure-ate in journalism, which I hope to have by 2008.
This year, I have noted that the next generation is more amiable, doesn’t freak out because of the few weird dudes lurking around the corner and seems to embrace a more social lifestyle with a degree of campus pride.
Back when everyone used to watch “Friends,” when I went here, I recall that most students didn’t have time for TV. I didn’t either. I watched the “Star Trek” shows, but that was pretty much all I had time for.
One time in ’95, I heard some classmates discuss-ing “Friends,” and I didn’t get it was a TV show at the time, and one of them mentioned a character called Rachel, who I assumed erroneously that they meant someone I knew who was named Rachel, but it turned out there are many Rachels out there, including one on the TV. Go figure.
This confusing moment was one of many that I later recalled as one of those moments it is best to keep quiet and not say anything about. I admitted I didn’t get out much.
Now, students might catch “Lost” every now and then on something called TiVo, and they walk around with iPod earpieces in their ears, and they don’t do as much bragging about what they did the night before.
We are more alike than unalike. Some people just like different things, and that’s
all right.
Adam Browne is a Spartan Daily staff writer. Guest columns appear every Tuesday and Wednesday.
ADAM BROWNE
Hamas is not the answer for Palestinians
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Student Union from Silver Creek High School volunteered to help at the event. Jennifer Arcia, 16, said the organization’s members wanted to get involved with their cultural heritage.
“In Mexico, we’d go to cem-eteries with our relatives … eat lots of food,” Arcia said. “It’s more important in Mexico. … We don’t celebrate Halloween there.”
Arcia said she grew up in Du-rango, Mexico, where her family used to cook pots of tamales to leave at the gravesite each year. Families would clean the grave-stone before leaving the food as an offering.
“Some even spend the night at the gravesites,” said volunteer Mayra Miranda, 16, also from Sil-ver Creek.
Fellow student Jazmin Figueroa, 16, said her family doesn’t do the graveyard thing, but they do put up an altar in the house to deceased family mem-bers.
“You put up their favorite food,” Figueroa said. “One of my uncles liked beer. … You put up what represents them.”
Families also put up candles, pictures and mementos on the altar, including dried garlands of yellow and orange marigolds that
represent sun and light, according to Judy King, who writes about the ancient festival at www.mex-connect.com.
King wrote that the spirits have three basic needs: “Wa-ter to quench the thirst and for purification; salt to season the food and for purification; bread to represent the food needed for survival.”
Toiletry items are also left near the altar so “the spirits can clean up when they return,” according to King.
Arcia, Miranda and Figueroa helped children create crafts projects associated with the day-of-the-dead celebration. Kids and adults made “papel picado” color-tissue deco-rations that go on the altar, painted face masks and deco-rated the sugar skulls.
Several artists performed inside the museum, as well as outside in Cesar Chavez Park, including feather-costumed dancers performing the Tczkati-lopa Aztec dance; the Aztec and Mayan cultures, according to King, heavily influence “Dia del los Muertos”.
There was also music by Los Soneros del Este and Grito Ser-pentino, and poems recited by several spoken word artists.
Rotfeld said that several of the poets’ presentations were political
commentaries.“Voter participation, immigra-
tion issues … Schwarzenegger,” Rotfeld said.
Accordion player and story-teller Nicolas Valdez, 26, recited a poem he wrote about his friend Ismael Herrera, who was killed in a fiery, two-car accident that also killed a police officer in San Anto-nio, Texas in 2005.
“We knew you were no strang-er to speed … a Chicano James Dean,” Valdez wrote of Herrera.
Valdez said that Herrera was assumed to be at fault because of the color of his skin and was la-beled as a cop killer. The funeral for the police officer got a lot of at-tention from the media; Herrera’s did not. Valdez said that police later discovered that the police of-ficer was at fault for the accident, not Herrera.
“He was criminalized because of the color of his skin,” Valdez said of his 22-year-old friend. They cheated us out of the griev-ing process.”
Bordona said the museum has recognized the Mexican holiday before, but this is the first time activities were centered on family for the celebration. Turnout was good.
“I’ve passed out 140 skulls,” Bordona said, “and I went through 150 pounds of sugar … and that’s just for the icing.”
studio, because it’s raw, it’s the best way,” Roland said.
Roland hopes that in 2007, he will be going on a European tour to help promote his love for music.
“I’ve always loved music and wanted to be in music,” Roland said. “I just love the feeling that blues brings.”
Johnson said the radio station offers five different genres of mu-sic — subversive rock, urban, elec-tronic, alternative and jazz — and within each of those genres are
many subcategories.“I think KSJS is a good station for
students, because the show doesn’t play commercial music,” said Melis-sa Bennett, a senior majoring in ra-dio, television and film. “KSJS plays music that has a good rotation and plays music that isn’t mainstream, but still fits the genre.”
Johnson’s show “Blue’s Cafe” is part of the jazz genre, along with six other shows that accompany him.
“It’s all for the love of the music, why I started this show” Johnson said. “Blues is good for everyone, because everyone can relate.”
Johnson said that to get his show, all he had to do was put in a pro-posal for the show, get it approved and take two required classes in the television, radio, film and theatre department.
“Sometimes I do special shows to help promote up-and-coming artists,” Johnson said.
Johnson said that each show he does is different and is planned by him. Sometimes he plans it out ahead of time, knowing exactly what he wants to play on the air, and other times, he just figures it out as he goes along.
Ramon Johnson, a first-year graduate student major-ing in radio, television and film, and Mike Adams, the chair of the department, host Blue’s Cafe together on Friday morning at 90.5 KSJS in Hugh Gillis Hall.
LAUREN SAGAR/ SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
BLUES- Show airs every Friday morningContinued from page 1
DEAD- Official day WednesdayContinued from page 1
ʻDarkness falls across the land/The midnight hour is close at hand/Creatures crawl in search of bloodʼ
— Michael Jackson, ʻThrillerʼ
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Family Halloween Festival:Foothill Presbyterian Church5301 McKee Rd., San Jose (408) 258-8133Activities include a cake walk and hayride.5 – 7 p.m.
Santana Row’s Halloween Family Festival:Santana RowWinchester Blvd. and Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose (408) 551-4611 Activities include pumpkin decorating, face painting, trick-or-treat-ing and a Halloween costume contest.10 a.m. – noon
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By Phil BennettDaily Staff Writer
� e night of Oct. 31 has not always been characterized by cob-webs, creepy critters and cavities.
“Halloween isn’t an American tradition,” said Webster Lincoln, a sophomore majoring in psychol-ogy at San Jose State University. “It originated in Europe and used to be a Pagan holiday celebrated by the Celts — called Samhain — cel-ebrating the dead.”
According to an article on SJLi-brary.com, Lincoln is correct. Dur-ing the eighth century, the Chris-tian church made Nov. 1 All Saints’ Day, to honor all of the saints that didn’t have a special day of their own.
� e mass held on All Saints’ Day was called All Hallowmass — the mass of all saintly people.
Some religions reject this holiday.“I believe Halloween is just an
excuse for girls to dress like prosti-tutes,” Lincoln said. “If you want to run around dressed as a vampire, a witch or the devil, I don’t care, but many Christians object to it be-cause it is a holiday also celebrated
by Satanists.”� e night before was known as
All Hallows Eve, which eventually became Halloween, according to an article on Google.com.
“One story says that on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year,” said Val-erie Bourland, an alumnus who majored in accounting. “It was be-lieved to be their only hope for the a� erlife.”
Bourland said the Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this “a� erlife,” allowing the spirit world to inter-mingle with the living.
“On the night of Oct. 31, villag-ers would extinguish the � res in their homes, to make themselves cold and undesirable,” Bourland said. “� ey would then dress up in all manners of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood, being as destruc-tive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.”
� us was born the tradition of dressing up on Halloween, accord-ing to search results on Ask.com.
“Actors in my department love to dress up for Halloween as do the KSJS DJs,” said Mike Adams, the chair of the television, radio, � lm and theatre department. “It’s just part of our ‘show business’ department.”
According to Wikipedia.com, the custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated with a ninth-century European custom called souling.
“On Nov. 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for ‘soul cakes,’” Bourland said.
Not all students see Halloween as a good thing.
“I agree with (Webster); that’s the reason I don’t celebrate Hallow-een — it’s associated with the dev-il,” said Sergio Estrella, a freshman majoring in health science. “I don’t understand why people who claim to be Christian celebrate worldly evil-like things like Halloween.”
� e idea of ‘begging for soul cakes’ has evolved into trick-or-treating, according to search re-
sults on Ask.com.“Trick-or-treating is for the
kids,” said Nancy Eldred, a psy-chology professor
Some students feel saddened by this age discrimination.
“I tried to go trick-or-treating a year ago, and some people refused to give me candy,” said Karina Ve-larde, a health science major.
Some students refuse to allow their adulthood to hold them back from their pursuit of sugar.
“Honestly, I miss the candy,” said Lindsay Woods, an advertising ma-jor. “� is year I plan to trick-or-treat with some friends like the old days.”
Ringing on doorbells in random neighborhoods at night is not al-ways a good idea, so some people travel in groups.
“� is time I will be going with a group of friends — I’m sure I’ll get candy,” Velarde said.
Some students don’t regard Hal-loween as having anything to do with Satanic beliefs.
“Halloween is just an American tradition, just like Day of the Dead is a Mexican tradition,” said Gene Maze, a senior majoring in public relations.
Halloween more than bag of treats
Walk for art downtown at South First FridaysBy Kelli Downey
Daily Staff WriterWalking into art galleries can
be intimidating, especially if the art seeker has no knowledge of the collections or the artists.
There is no reason to fear art gal-leries, according to Anjee Helstrup-
Alvarez, associate director and cura-tor at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana. The Latino cultural organization tries to break down the art barriers and intimida-tion for everyone who enters.
South First Fridays provides free art venues at fi ve galleries to the public in downtown San Jose’s SoFA district. The gallery walk on the fi rst Friday of every month begins at 8 p.m. and goes on until late, which varies at each gallery.
“It is a very open and friend-ly environment for everyone,” Helstrup-Alvarez said. “They can see a whole range of artistic ex-pressions in one evening.”
The participating art galleries in the SoFA district include Anno Domini, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, the Latino cultural organization, the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art and the GreenRice Gallery.
Each gallery provides various artistic material from multimedia to photography that people of all ages can enjoy.
“Might as well take a stroll and
visit the other galleries,” said Jen-ny Do, an artist at GreenRice. “We are fortunate enough that all of our galleries are close enough.”
South First Fridays is a relative-ly new event for people to enjoy art, music and other forms of enter-tainment in downtown San Jose.
“We started in February of this year,” said Cherri Lakey, one of the proprietors of Anno Domini.
Lakey explained that Anno Do-mini was in another location in San Jose and always had fi rst Fri-days on its own. The proprietors of Anno Domini wanted to continue their fi rst Fridays and include the galleries in the area.
“Adding the other galleries and their crowds created a fun festive for gallery hopping,” Lakey said.
South First Fridays has become more than just free entertainment to a lively crowd.
“It is bringing people from all different walks of life together,” Do said. “It is beginning to create a sense of community and belonging.”
The various art galleries partici-pate in South First Fridays for dif-
ferent reasons, in addition to creat-ing an artistic environment.
“It is our goal to be part of the vibrant culture group of San Jose,” said Connie DeWitt, the marketing director at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
Every gallery differs in terms of exhibitions, refreshments and enter-tainment. The art shows at GreenRice last for two months, and the gallery sees South First Friday’s regulars.
“I would say approximately 20 to 30 people will always be there,” Do said. “It is very fl attering and very encouraging for people to come back even if you have the same show.”
South First Fridays goers are out-going and energetic, DeWitt said.
“It is a lively, young, trendy art crowd,” DeWitt said.
Lakey encourages people of all ages to attend the Friday gallery walks, even if they think they are not interested.
DeWitt said the museum shows heritage quilts and contemporary art as well, but most people think of only of quilts.
There is an interactive perfor-mance scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. this Friday at the museum. “Permanent Madness” is about a reinterpretation of a 12th century Iranian love story.
In addition to the upcoming South First Friday, the Latino cultural organization is having an opening reception for its current exhibition, “Culture of Violence.” This exhibition, by Victor Carta-gena, consists of two multimedia installations, including “Bang! Bang! Toy Gun!”
Aside from art galleries in downtown, the public is encour-aged to eat at the local restaurants and relax at nightspots that partici-pate in South First Fridays.
A percentage of the bills on the fi rst Friday at Naglee Park Garage, located farther away from the gal-lery walk, at 505 E. San Carlos St., go to support the efforts of South First Fridays.
Despite the seasonal weather, South First Fridays will continue to occur. After this Friday, the next event will be Dec. 1.
“People need to come now, before the weather turns,” DeWitt said.
PREVIEW
By Greg LydonDaily Senior Staff Writer
San Jose State University foot-ball fans will remember Saturday afternoon’s football game against
Louisiana Tech University as a dominant 44-10 victory, and a day when the Spar-tans accumulated 476-yards rush-ing, third most in school history.
SJSU junior offensive guard Jibri Sharp will remember Saturday’s game for a whole different reason: it was the day he received a scholarship to play college football.
After the Spartans’ victory, head coach Dick Tomey awarded Sharp
with the game ball for his play during the Louisiana Tech game, and told him that he would have a scholarship in January.
“I didn’t have any idea that it was going to happen,” Sharp said. “I was shocked.”
The SJSU offense added Sharp as a new weapon during the con-test, using the junior, who is listed as an offensive guard, as a second fullback in their power formation.
Sharp’s large frame, but excel-lent agility for his size, was a huge key for the record-breaking success for the Spartans’ ground game on Saturday, Tomey said.
“I’ve never done that before,” Tomey said about giving a player a scholarship after a game. “He was knocking the dickens out of people today. He has injected toughness
into this football team.”Tomey spoke about Sharp’s
strength to move piles of people during the game, and with his solid status as a student at SJSU, Tomey was happy to award Sharp for his hard work.
“My teammates were all cel-ebrating like they had all received scholarships too,” Sharp said. “It was a beautiful moment for me.”
Sharp said that he was supposed to go to Utah State University two years ago, but things didn’t work out. The 330-pound Oakland na-tive decided to go somewhere clos-er to home and attend SJSU.
After sitting out last season, Sharp found encouragement from friend and SJSU tailback Yonus Davis to walk-on to the team this season.
Sharp has been working with the team since last January.
“I always knew he was going to get a scholarship,” Davis said. “He’s
a great player and has helped our offense out a lot.”
Sharp is one of three SJSU line-men who have played three differ-ent positions this season.
In the game against the Univer-sity of Nevada, Reno, Sharp started at fullback and has also seen time at his regular spot of offensive guard, along with playing defensive tackle on short-yardage and field goal block situations.
Sharp and the rest of his Spartan teammates will travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico this weekend against New Mexico State University.
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OAKLAND — Oakland bench coach Bob Geren inter-viewed for the Athletics’ mana-gerial opening Monday, sitting down for 3 1/2 hours in the first formal meeting with general manager Billy Beane and other team officials about the job.
Geren, someone the A’s have long believed is manager mate-rial, is considered a favorite to re-place fired skipper Ken Macha.
“What was nice is I knew everybody in the room,” Ge-ren said in a phone interview. “I have prior experience with everybody in the room. Every-body knew me going in and I
think they know me even bet-ter now. I felt I exposed who I was and what I could bring to the table. I thought we covered everything. It was wonderful.”
The 45-year-old Geren spent the 2006 season as bench coach after three seasons as bullpen coach in his first stint on a major league coaching staff. He joined the organization in 1999 as man-ager of Class-A Modesto, then spent the next three seasons man-aging at Triple-A Sacramento.
Beane is taking his time hir-ing a manager and has a series of interviews scheduled this week and next week, including Tues-day with longtime A’s third-base coach Ron Washington.
“My teammates were all celebrating like they had all received scholarships too.”
—Jibri Sharp, SJSU offensive guard
Tomey honors offensive guard after victory
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how they cook food.Freshly caught seafood and
fresh-cut flowers are some of the items sold at the farmers’ market from the more than 35 vendors on the street.
“I’ve been here about five years,” said Bill Weinheimer, who sells or-chids.
Drew Krake, a fisherman, has been selling fresh seafood at the farmers’ market.
“We get it fresh locally,” Krake said. “We get a lot of it from San Francisco area, and we get some around Half Moon Bay and wher-ever we can access (it) fresh.”
Krake said business has quadru-pled in the last couple months.
Katrina Donovan, a frequent visitor, said she was at the farmers’ market every Friday of 2005 and said she enjoys going to it.
Donovan said she moved here in the summer of 2005 and thought the farmers’ market had very good deals.
She said one of the vendors from last year wasn’t able to come back due to financial reasons.
“I miss Happy Boy Farms,” Don-ovan said.
Happy Boy Farms is an organic vendor, something she likes about the farmers’ market.
She said that’s one of the main reasons she goes to the farmers’ market but also said that busi-ness has been slow because of the downtown events happening like the Grand Prix.
Brian Bailey, of Beckman’s Old World Bakery, said he offers more than just the items they sell.
“We nice to all customers,” Bai-ley said.
Surprisingly, Bailey and Dono-van knew each other because of her frequent visits.
Bailey said it’s slow in the morn-ings, but business will pick up once lunchtime hits and people from nearby businesses will come to check it out.
eral programs, these organizations are pivotal sources for people in need,” said Jack O’Connell, state superintendent of public instruc-tion and 2006 campaign chair-man.
According to the campaign’s Web site, the donations provide meals for the hungry, shelter and vocational training for families in need, disease research, and envi-ronmental protection.
“Last year out of the of 3,244 employees working at SJSU, 379 contributed to the charity for a to-tal of $43,227,” said Elizabeth Mar-tinez, the assistant to the associate vice president of human resources at SJSU, “but we are hoping that more people will participate this year.”
Kassing encouraged his staff to “continue the tradition of giv-ing back through the campaign by contributing as much as they can.”
It is still unclear how much has
been collected so far, Martinez said, but the goal for this anniver-sary year was to collect $53,000.
Kathleen Morris, the cam-paign’s account executive, said that each year the state employees receive a payroll deduction pledge form and a donor resource guide listing the participating charitable organizations, but they can also give to a non-listed charity of their choice.
“Last year $7.1 million were do-nated by 275,000 state employees
through payroll- deduction dona-tions,” Morris said.
According to the donor re-source guide distributed to state employees each year, the money goes to different charities and oth-er organizations.
“Thousands of charitable orga-nizations depend on the generos-ity of California state employees to provide for those in need,” Morris said. “The money our state em-ployees donate really goes a long way.”
MARKET- Business has been slow in fallContinued from page 1 “I’ve been here for
five years.”—Bill Weinheimer,
vendor
CHARITY- Millions raised each yearContinued from page 1
those students are going to remember for a long time,” Pierson said.
Pierson said that, before the halftime show, the band was split into groups in two tunnels, where the band members waited to make their entrance onto the field.
The marching band performed the “Rock Star Show” that Pierson said in-cluded songs from AC/DC and Black Sab-bath, and ended with the band forming the Raider shield with anthem at the end.
Pierson said that the only problem with the band’s performance was that the band members weren’t given enough time to perform their whole set.
As a result the band wasn’t able to per-form the Raider theme song and have the band create the Raider shield at the end.
“So we get done with the very last song before the Raider shield, and all of a sudden, people are coming up to me say-ing they have to get off the field,” Pierson said. “We got done with the final song of the regular show, and the drum major and I just yelled at the top of our lungs, ‘Get off field,’ and just pointed at the stu-dents.”
He said that by that point, some of the Pittsburgh Steelers special teams guys were out on the field already.
Pierson said that nonetheless, he en-joyed the performance and that when the band left the field, the fans were giving high fives and telling the musicians how great they were.
The only thing Pierson was disappoint-ed in was the fact that they didn’t get to create the Raider shield, especially since the Raiders were winning at that point.
BAND- Show was cut short Continued from page 1
Wednesday1:49 a.m. Possession of Controlled SubstanceLocation: San Salvador and Fifth streetsSummary: Joelle Leslie Erwig, 36, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance. Her vehicle was towed by Rebello’s Towing.
2:31 a.m. Tampering with Fire EquipmentLocation: Campus Village Building CSummary: A report was taken for tampering with the fire equipment.
Tuesday1:32 p.m. TheftLocation: Clark HallSummary: A report was taken for a stolen bicycle.
6:06 p.m. TheftLocation: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. LibrarySummary: A report was taken for a stolen bicycle.
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